Pacquiao's Fast Pace Will Wear Cotto Down, Says Roach

[internetworld7]

Pac really has the skill, power and speed to put Cotto flat on the canvass. But that will only happen if Cotto loses his heart just like the Marg fight. I don't see Cotto being stopped though.

That is possible but I think Pac is being a bit overrated when compared to Cotto. By the way, I like that t-shirt in your avatar.

[twinchrome44s]

When Pacquiao's team watches the tapes they'll switch up their gameplan...Roach will see that Cotto tires under pressure but to pressure Cotto Pac has to expose himself to too much danger. If Pacs so good of a boxer now he's best served to rely on outboxing Cotto for twelve otherwise if he tries to bully him down like Margarito (and without plaster) he's in for a welterweight welcoming party that DLH didn't properly introduce him to.

[multivitamins]

Pac will bust Cotto's face. Cotto will lay flat on the canvas within 6 rounds. On the first knockdown, Cotto will take a knee, on the second knockdown Cotto will take 2 knees on the Floor, on the 3rd knockdown Cotto will lay flat on the canvas outcold.

Cotto's wife crying and his children gets traumatized.

[boricuarn]

Pacquiao will need your stinky multivitamins to get some strength to survive 6 rounds. Cotto will destroy Pacquiao in 6 rounds, after that will drink a vanilla shake and will discard your rotten multivitamins so the poor Pacquiao does not get infected anymore.

[fightingfigs]

I think roach might have to stop this fight like he had to stop the peñalosa vs juanma

WOW Roach wants to **** with Cotto in the beginning rounds when Cotto is most devestating??

Pacquiao has never even tatsed WW power. Hes in for a bad night.

Cotto by KO before 8th

[MakeDamnSure]

Lol at these Cotto sensitive fans getting butthurt everytime an expert pick Pacquiao.

Cotto is a good fighter. I'd rank him on the level of Gatti style like Hopkins said.

[Datu Puti]

cause pac will be messed up by the sixth round to take advantage true story.

Cotto better take advantage of the earlier round and be prepared to find PACQUIAO, cause PACQUIAO is not gonna be standing there long enough to get hit with multiple body shots. I see PACQUIAO fighting the same way he fought DLH, but with a mixture of right and left hooks...PACQUIAO needs to work on his uppercut to expose COTTO'S tuck chin...oh wait..that might be the secret weapon this time...It it goes the distance, it will be an advantage for PACQUIAO cause COTTO seems to tire out. Cotto will soon find out thats he is in a middle of a hurricane...and get hit from all angles...eventually wearing him down to be KOed....NO DISRESPECT TO COTTO cause he is a warrior, but SPEED and punches from all angles that can't be seen will be the key to this fight.

[NachoMan]

I'm just tired of everyone thinking that pacman is invincible and cotto don't have a chance. Look at pacman's face after morales 1 fight? MORALES ! Cotto is way faster, better jab, stronger, etc, etc than morales and morales tore up pacman's face. PEOPLE WAKE UP !

Pacquiao is definitely not invincible, but as we saw in Pacquiao-Morales I, it pretty much takes a perfect performance to beat him (convincingly). Morales took it to Manny for the better of 12 rounds in that fight, but Manny was still coming full steam in the last round. As you may recall, Morales got too ****y for his own good, switched stances and got rocked hard in the last round. As impressed as I was with EM's performance in that fight, I suspect that the outcome may have been different if that fight went 15 rounds. Cotto has great skills, but I don't think he's as sharp a boxer (or as sturdy in the beard) as EM was. It remains to be seen if his greater size and power can make up the difference. Like most fans, there was a time not long ago where the idea that Pacquiao could compete with, much less defeat Cotto, was absurd. Now, I find it hard to imagine Cotto lasting the distance. I don't think Cotto has the confidence in his chin to try to walk down Manny (Manny doesn't get walked down anyway), and I don't think he's fast enough to outbox him. For those who point to his effectiveness agains SSM, all I have to say is that Pacquiao brings an entirely different rhythm. I don't see Cotto timing Pacquio effectively. As EM proved, Manny can be beaten by a super-fit, sturdy-chinned, sharp boxer-puncher who believes in his jab. I'm a fan of Cotto's, but that's not him. I see Cotto getting KO/TKO'd within six rounds.

[Datu Puti]

When Pacquiao's team watches the tapes they'll switch up their gameplan...Roach will see that Cotto tires under pressure but to pressure Cotto Pac has to expose himself to too much danger. If Pacs so good of a boxer now he's best served to rely on outboxing Cotto for twelve otherwise if he tries to bully him down like Margarito (and without plaster) he's in for a welterweight welcoming party that DLH didn't properly introduce him to.

the kind of pressure Cotto is going to get is from all angles..this ain't gonna be a walk me down, get yourself expose pressure...With Cotto doing the Salsa all night trying to find PACQUAIO...he will tire out in the later rounds to get KOed...PACQUIAO is going to be dancing like a fly and sting like a BEE...not like fly on ****.. This is going to be an exciting fight...not a hug and hold and punch behind the head bull****...

[NachoMan]

...Roach knows his fighter more than anyone, and he'll do what he thinks is best for Manny. But the problem is Manny has never been in with someone who can put that kind of pressure on Manny. Hatton was a bulldozer as Floyd Sr. said, and Manny completely demolished that, but Cotto is a pressure/boxer. He can put you on your heels and/or box with you if need be as he proved in the Mosley fight. I think if Manny comes out guns blazing Cotto needs to NOT worry about winning those rounds as he did with Marg and Clottey, instead he should just destroy Manny's body. He may get hit a lot but if he does nothing but focus on that body while Manny is coming full bore, he will fade against the damage Cotto's body punches do.

The problem is, Cotto seems to have abandoned his body punching. Check out his fights with Margarito and Clottey. You could almost count the body punches on two hands. I almost went mad waiting for Cotto to go hard to the body in those fights. I see him throwing very little to Manny's body because Manny is just not going to be in range for him to go there with any confidence.